Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Growth, Hiring, Product, Q&A
Dear SaaStr: What Makes a Bad CTO? While there is no legal definition for CTO 🙂 or bright line between CTO and VPE, I’d suggest a start-up CTO really only…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Early, Hiring, Q&A, Sales, Sales
The #1 most important criterion for your first 2 reps is: would you buy from her? Leads are too precious in the early days, your brand is non-existent, and everything…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Early, Leadership, Q&A
Q: Dear SaaStr: How Can I Develop Confidence as a Startup CEO? We’ve all been there in the early days — and even beyond. You can have 1000% conviction in…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Podcasts, Videos
Shopify President Harley Finkelstein shares insight on how entrepreneurs approach personal change, coaching, and development to achieve work-life harmony.
Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Early, Fundraising, Leadership
These are the Best of Times for venture capital. 500+ new seed funds, and 1000+ unicorns and decacorns. And as part of this, more and more big corporations are adding…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Growth, Hiring, Leadership
We wrote a version of this post a ways back, but thought it was time for a refresh, so I put together a new video on how to avoid burn-out…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Early, Leadership, Other, Q&A
Everyone today wants to start a SaaS startup. They have an idea they are passionate about. They’ve worked under a great CEO and they’re ready — they think — to…
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Career Growth & Advice, Growth, Hiring, Leadership, Q&A
Q: As an entrepreneur, what are some tips and strategies to avoid burning out? It’s a huge risk. A lot of “pretty successful” startups all sell at about the same…
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Q: Dear SaaStr: How Long Should a CEO Continue Being the Head of Product? Roughly, for me, for as long as it’s about a 10-hour a week job. Or often,…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Fundraising, Leadership
If you don't send the VC a deck ahead of the meeting, Don't expect them to be prepared — Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️ (@jasonlk) August 11, 2021 These truly are…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Growth, Hiring, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Videos
In the run-up to 2021 SaaStr Annual, we’re looking back at some of the top all-time sessions. One of the most popular sessions at SaaStr Annual, Busting the Myths About…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Company Culture, Hiring, Leadership, Product, SaaStr Events, Sales, Scale, Videos
Two successful SaaS leaders talk about product alignment, freemium models, having an open-source product and other topics in SaaS we all want answers to.
Career Growth & Advice, Fundraising, Leadership, Podcasts
Ep: 413: Join four-time Founder and CEO Auren Hoffman as he breaks down how businesses can become the right model for explosive growth, emulate their strategy, and join the…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Early, Leadership, Q&A
Q: Dear SaaStr: My Co-Founder is Threatening to Quit Unless I Give Him More Equity; what should I do? Generally, this is the last, best chance to fix things. Founder…
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Career Growth & Advice, Leadership, Podcasts
Ep. #404: The benefits of managing upwards and downwards are frequent management topics. However, managing sideways and inward are also important skills for a successful leader. Learn new ways to…
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